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Discover LudwigThe phrase "deference for" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is usually used to express respect for a particular person, thing, institution, or custom. For example, "The Mayor approached the podium with deference for the legacy of past leaders."
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Obama has shown little deference for special interests in many areas.
"I'm frustrated that nobody gives us any deference for knowing how this stuff works.
The economic boom and middle-class expansion of the postwar era encouraged relative deference for officials, journalists and scholars.
Or on a faulty deference for how things were done in the past that undermines firms' new well-intentioned policies.
But the Internet is where ancient mores of deference for the royal family collide with the irreverence and informality of the Facebook generation.
But there is little evidence the Queen's words, and the spin placed on them, swayed many voters, even in that earlier age of much greater deference for monarchy.
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This time, Shiv Sena wanted a citywide signal of deference and respect for Mr. Thackeray.
The gerontologist David Hackett Fischer notes that literature from seventeenth-and eighteenth-century colonial America stressed deference and respect for the elderly.
Until we free public information from government secrecy, we may be exhibiting too much courtesy, deference and respect for authority.
The "campaign to inculcate deference and respect for the young emperor found ready acceptance throughout Brazil".
Gombrowicz is endlessly inventive in caricaturing peasant postures and aristocratic posturings, the charades of superiority and deference, stratagems for saving face and for putting on airs.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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